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[–] babboa@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Even the ones where the chutes deployed have to be still carrying a decent amount of energy given the speed they appeared to be dropping in the video I saw. Given the number of folks running to try to get to them I'm surprised MORE weren't injured.

[–] babboa@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Because like schoolchildren or Ned Flanders we must not say bad words but abbreviations or euphemisms are okely dokely.

[–] babboa@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

1.6 month increased average survival. Spin it and slice the numbers however they want to, thats still pretty grim.

[–] babboa@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Edinburgh may be my favorite city I've ever visited. I want to go back again later this year. That being said: thoughts about some of the things we did.

Edinburgh Castle is iconic, has great views, and outside of the Scottish crown jewels it was not that terribly crowded though there is also not as much to see as something like the tower of London though the history is still quite interesting. Can probably see it all in under a half day, realistically I think we were there four hours and saw everything but the crown jewels.

The royal botanic gardens in Edinburgh was not on my list of things to do before visiting but it was beautiful. Would definitely book at least half a day to explore it.

The johnny walker experience wasn't all that great. Would book a seat at their bar way early but the tasting wasn't particularly special. The west end brasserie right across the street from there actually has a stupidly long scotch menu if you have an idea of what styles you already like and just want to go taste a broad variety of things you could probably have actually spent less money there for better scotch (I don't particularly love most of JW's blends).

We actually took a fly fishing trip for native brown trout on one of the lochs northeast of Glasgow. VERY reasonably priced, gorgeous scenery, and fun letting my (now) wife catch her first trout on a fly. Pun intended but she's now hooked. Definitely needed to pack better waterproof gear for that though. The rain jacket wasn't good enough sitting in a boat going across a loch in a strong mist.

[–] babboa@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (16 children)

Even phevs have this availability. Loving our Mazda cx90 for this feature. Can program their app to have it start warming 15-20 mins before my wife leaves for work and it's ready to go and comfortable.

[–] babboa@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Because they looked around and realized nobody else would put up with Jerry's shit?

[–] babboa@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any chance you have an Indian grocery near you? The ones I've gone to often have pg tips for way cheaper than that.

[–] babboa@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure sounds like it. 5800x3d I think is max 4.5ghz base. But at $100 cheaper list, I know which I'm picking.

[–] babboa@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I mean, you CAN make wine out of Concord grapes, but it still tastes like Concord grapes after fermentation. Many places that lack the more temperate climate of France or coastal California make a lot of wine out of Concord and similar grape varieties bred from native grape species that are in many cases more disease resistant and tolerant of extreme temps. Overall, they tend to be sweeter wines(though concords technically have a lower natural sugar content on average than many traditional varieties) and often they get mixed with other fruit wines (blackberry, blueberry, strawberry, and even another native grape called a muscadine) because they aren't easy to extract a lot of tannins out of, and are a real one trick pony from a flavor perspective. Many attempts have been made to breed grapes that exhibit more "traditional" wine flavors, to varying degrees of success.

That being said, this is some real prison hooch territory and there's zero reason to do something like this with as accessable as winemaking kits are these days. Now if you're in a prohibition type scenario maybe it makes at least some sort of sense.

[–] babboa@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The game itself is great too if you like tabletop games. It is about as close to a 1:1 port of tabletop rules as you're realistically going to see made. The mods available really open it up past the base experience as well, but I wouldn't touch them til you've finished at least one playthrough of the base game first.

[–] babboa@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

What is this, non credible defense? If you believe that, then nothing matters and all options are on the table including preemptive action, because you either assume that MAD is enough to stave off that stupidity or you dont. But...this is all bullshit propaganda and saber rattling so who really cares.

[–] babboa@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They've been held at bay for over a year by a smaller army with at best 20+ year old "B stock" conventional munitions often Jerry rigged to give half the capabilities they have when used as intended. Russia is a paper tiger who would get the Iraq revolutionary guards treatment inside 3 weeks if they start shit against the finns. And nobody outside Putin himself is suicidal enough to start throwing nukes.

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